NASA has released a detailed scientific assessment of a potential mission to the intriguing Jovian moon Europa that would touch down on the icy moon in 2031.
Some production work resumed amid recovery activities at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans on Feb. 13, six days after a tornado swept across the 829-acre, 81-facility site.
The Turkish government has signed off on a development program for an indigenous turboshaft engine that could eventually go on to power Turkey’s T129 attack helicopter and future utility rotorcraft.
Participants in a NASA-hosted workshop have narrowed from eight to three the number of prime-candidate landing sites for the agency’s next rover mission to Mars.
In this week’s Check 6 with Accenture, we talk about President Donald Trump, international trade and the aerospace and defense sector, and impact of the Internet of Things on industry.
The lobbying group for France’s aerospace industry has released annual performance numbers earlier than planned, reacting to recent negative comments about the contribution of the industry to France’s 2016 balance of trade.
A panel of aerospace and defense analysts has proposed ditching the U.S. Air Force’s Boeing 747-8-based Air Force One in favor of the Northrop Grumman B-21 stealth bomber, or a less-costly militarized Boeing 737 fleet.
NASA’s embrace of cloud computing has been slowed by weaknesses that leave some data stored in cloud environments at risk, an inspector general's audit says.
Israel’s Gilat Satellite Networks is to develop an embedded electronically scanned antenna for Ka-band inflight connectivity under a joint project with Airbus.
In this week’s Washington Outlook: the president meets with airline executives, generals describe a budget crisis without admitting failure, the battle for heavy-launch business and an argument for commercialized space-traffic control.
Despite facing a lawsuit seeking to block procurement, Darpa has selected Space Systems Loral (SSL) as its commercial partner for the Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites (RSGS) demonstration.
Orbital ATK has filed a lawsuit against Darpa to halt a program it alleges would unlawfully subsidize the creation of a commercial competitor to the satellite servicing capability it is developing with private investment.
Leonardo has begun flight trials of the third prototype AW609 commercial tiltrotor as it targets certification of the high-speed rotary-wing aircraft by 2018.
NASA’s Satellite Servicing Products Division is counting on SpaceX’s CRS 10 resupply mission to the International Space Station to help kick off two years of autonomous rendezvous and docking system technology development.
